Grand Traverse County News

Michigan Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical marijuana patients can drive after using the drug if they are not under the influence.

Beginning today and running through June 4, Garfield Township residents can swing by the Township Hall during regular office hours and pick up a free yard waste pass good for one trip to the Grand Traverse County Keystone Brush Drop-Off site.

In a Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 photo, flood water surrounds a house downstream of the Brown Bridge Dam on the Boardman River, south of Traverse City.

Margaret Frodle of Grand Blanc looks through the herbs at Myers Farm's booth. "I come here every year," she said about the booth.

"Typically, there are peaks and valleys, but we reached a peak that didn't go into a valley very quickly," Monroe says.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff's deputies arrested four men and found a Traverse City runaway when they executed a search warrant Saturday at a home on Curtis Road in Blair Township.

According to a recent report , residential, commercial and industrial customers 'landfilled' 69,161 tons of solid waste in 2012.

Northern Michigan authorities have identified the man found dead in an Grand Traverse County field as a 32-year-old Traverse City father.

That's how food truck owner Simon Joseph is looking at the recent 5-2 decision by Traverse City commissioners to allow the mobile kitchens to set up in the northern Michigan city's downtown area starting Thursday, May 16.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Jason Gillman is raising more ire and eyebrows in the region lately than anyone.

Northern Michigan authorities continue to investigate the death of a white male, approximately 25 to 35 years old, whose body was found in a field in East Bay Township on May 7. Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office released a description of the deceased as being 5'11'' tall and weighing 184 pounds.

There's a new development headed to the intersection of M-72 West and Grandview Parkway: The Larkin Group of Traverse City is building a new, 12,000 square foot headquarters on the site.

Big Green Gym Blue's community challenge. It's a collaborative effort between, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Recreation Parks Association and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Business leaders are criticizing a decision by the Leelanau County commission to abolish its economic development corporation and reject a partnership with nearby Grand Traverse County designed to promote growth.

Edgar is an 11-year veteran of the department and previously served as a detective in the South Oakland Narcotics Intelligence Consortium .

Are you a local business currently exporting goods out of the region, or perhaps considering it? If so, local officials need your input to develop incentive programs tailored to your business needs.

A nearly $3 million renovation of Clinch Park in downtown Traverse City is just weeks away from completion, with a targeted June 25 public ribbon cutting ceremony set to open the park.

Detective Ayren Edgar was promoted April 26 to the rank of sergeant with the Novi Police Department.

Around 11 p.m. Sunday, April 21, police were dispatched to the Grand Traverse County Civic Center, where 56-year-old Anthony C. Ciccone was reportedly refusing to leave a restroom, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reports.

Anthony Ciccone made headlines earlier this year when he said that he is homeless and that his superstar sister, singer Madonna , doesn't care if he's dead or alive .